Fence-post



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S. J-. SAXON & W. H JAMES.

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N0.423,633 Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS J. SAXON AND WILLIAM H. JAMES, OF OOLFAX, TVASHINGTON.

- FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,633, dated March18, 1890.

Application filed July 15, 1889 Serial No. 317,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SILAs J. SAXON and WILLIAM H. JAMES, both ofColfax, in the county of Whitman and Territory of Washington, haveinvented a new and Improved Fence-Post, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming apart thereof, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of our improvedfence-post. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section taken on line 00 x in Fig. 2. section taken on line yyin Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken on line 2 z in Fig.2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

The object of our invention is to provide a fence-post formed partly ofiron and partly of wood, and constructed so that no water can settle inany portion of the post, so as to freeze or cause the decay of the woodor the corrosion of the iron. 4

Ourinvention consists in an iron foot-piece 7 Fig. 4 is a horizontal,

around a tube 0, which projects above the upper end of the foot-piece,so as to receive the wooden portion D. Into the lower end of the woodenportion D is driven a ferrule or ring E, and the wooden partD is drivenonto the tubular extension 0, the ferrule or ring and the tubularextension being concentric. The ferrule E is designed to prevent thepost from splitting and for compressing the Wood, so as to prevent theabsorption of moisture.

The foot-pieceA is set in the ground in the same manner as an ordinarypost, with its upper end even with the .top of the ground or a shortdistance above the ground-level. The wooden part D of the post is drivendown upon the tube (J.

It is obvious that the tube 0 maybe formed integrally with thefoot-piece A. Therefore we do not confine ourselves to the exactconstruction herein described.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent An improved fence-post, consisting of ametallic foot-piece A, provided with the hub B, having the tubularextension 0 firmly secured thereto and projecting from its upper end,and the wooden upper portion D, driven onto the tubular extension, thepost being firmly and permanently secured to the foot, substantially asherein shown and described.

SILAS J. SAXON. WVILLIAM H. JAMES. Witnesses:

J. W. HIGGINS, W. B. RENSHAW.

